Amir notices two different faces that Hassan seems to have; one is the smiling face he shares everyday and the other would appear for "a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave [Amir] with an unsettling feeling that maybe [he'd] seen it some place before." Hosseini seems to be implying that Amir knows someone else with this face that Hassan seems to have a similarity to and a reasonable explanation would be that their "brotherhood" is an actual brotherhood! Hassan and Amir are related! Dang father.
I discovered by re-reading some notes that I jotted down from the first section we were assigned to that Hassan sacrificing himself for Amir and Amir sacrificing Hassan for Baba was foreshadowed on page 11! Amir is saying "Hassan and I fed from the same breast. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name." He even tells the reader "I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975-and all that followed- was already laid in those first words."
On the day that Hassan was raped, Amir described the streets as "[glistening] with fresh snow and the sky was blameless blue." The snow represents Hassan's purity and innocence along with the "blameless blue" kite because Hassan always take the blame for Amir.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
The Kite Runner 1
The first chapter introduces Amir, his servant/friend Hassan, and their fathers who we discover later on in the reading are opposites of each other. When Amir's not in school him and Hassan cause trouble, like every boy does, and Hassan always seems to be the scapegoat. "Hassan never denied [Amir] anything..[but once] Hassan's father Ali [caught them, Hassan] never told that [it] was always [Amir's] idea." Hassan seems to sacrifice himself just to make sure Amir is happy. Could that make him a Christ figure?
Also the reader finds out that both Hassan and Amir's mother died so they fed from the same breast of a Hazarian woman and "there [is] a brotherhood between people who [feed] from the same breast, a kinship that not even time [can] break." This foreshadows the mistake that Amir made in the winter of 1975 that he has to return to Afghanistan to fix. I think this proves they will become friends once again and live happily ever after.
On page 5 in the top line of the first paragraph Hosseini uses Asyndeton while describing Baba's favorite things: "politics, business, soccer."
Also the reader finds out that both Hassan and Amir's mother died so they fed from the same breast of a Hazarian woman and "there [is] a brotherhood between people who [feed] from the same breast, a kinship that not even time [can] break." This foreshadows the mistake that Amir made in the winter of 1975 that he has to return to Afghanistan to fix. I think this proves they will become friends once again and live happily ever after.
On page 5 in the top line of the first paragraph Hosseini uses Asyndeton while describing Baba's favorite things: "politics, business, soccer."